Consisting of fluent images and the filmmaker’s grave voiceover, Aleksandr Sokurov’s Elegiya dorogi is a dream-journey through snowy woods and urban locations that eventually lands in an art museum, where the journeyer remarks on various paintings, including Pieter the Elder Brueghel’s Tower of Babel. The Mahler on the soundtrack certifies Elegiya dorogi for the culture-vultures. Sokurov’s “philosophical” ruminations are embarassing, the visuals (shot on digital Beta) are tortuously underlit, and the whole enterprise is soporific.
More poetical than poetic, this one could be called Russian Dark.
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ELEGY OF A VOYAGE (Aleksandr Sokurov, 2001)
Consisting of fluent images and the filmmaker’s grave voiceover, Aleksandr Sokurov’s Elegiya dorogi is a dream-journey through snowy woods and urban locations that eventually lands in an art museum, where the journeyer remarks on various paintings, including Pieter the Elder Brueghel’s Tower of Babel. The Mahler on the soundtrack certifies Elegiya dorogi for the culture-vultures. Sokurov’s “philosophical” ruminations are embarassing, the visuals (shot on digital Beta) are tortuously underlit, and the whole enterprise is soporific.
More poetical than poetic, this one could be called Russian Dark.
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